In Washington, counted the damage from cybercrime at 0.5% of world GDP
In a desperate attempt to be remembered by people with anything other than annoying presets of their antivirus on Windows and on Android, McAfee, now a division of Intel Security, is studying the cybercrime market.
A McAfee sponsored report by the Washington-based Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS) yesterday estimates that the damage to cybercrime around the world is estimated at $ 400 billion, including the underdeveloped 350 thousand jobs in the United States and Europe.
This is approximately 15-20% of the total contribution of the Internet to the world economy, which is estimated at $ 2-3 trillion per year, or approximately 0.5% of world GDP, which is already close to 0.9% of the illicit drug trade (now you know the share of drug traffic in the global economy).
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Cybercrime damages trade, competition, innovation and, as a result, economic growth. For obvious reasons, the more developed a country is, the higher the share of damage from cybercrime in GDP.
In the US alone in 2013, more than 3,000 companies were hacked. Forty million people - every seventh American - suffered from the damage associated with the theft of their credit card data, which, according to the report, pulls in $ 160 billion.
A separate item of expenditure - recovery after attacks: for example, in Italy, the direct losses from hacker attacks amounted to $ 875 million, but cleaning and restoring systems cost $ 8.5 billion.
However, the report has already received a critical assessment. The Guardian pays attention to the cost of recovery after a hacker attack: “This is the money you spend on McAfee and their friends,” Ross Anderson, a professor of technological safety at the University of Cambridge, quotes. “The irony is that the security industry, in mock terror, warns the world that their momentum is too high,” he summed up the scope of the threats described in the report.
The Guardian also finds fault with the valuation methodology - too much indirect data, some countries are simply turned off due to a lack of trust in their information. But they end up commenting that the shortcomings of individual studies are not a reason to ignore the scale of cybercrime in the world.
A little more on the topic:
A McAfee sponsored report by the Washington-based Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS) yesterday estimates that the damage to cybercrime around the world is estimated at $ 400 billion, including the underdeveloped 350 thousand jobs in the United States and Europe.
This is approximately 15-20% of the total contribution of the Internet to the world economy, which is estimated at $ 2-3 trillion per year, or approximately 0.5% of world GDP, which is already close to 0.9% of the illicit drug trade (now you know the share of drug traffic in the global economy).
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Cybercrime damages trade, competition, innovation and, as a result, economic growth. For obvious reasons, the more developed a country is, the higher the share of damage from cybercrime in GDP.
In the US alone in 2013, more than 3,000 companies were hacked. Forty million people - every seventh American - suffered from the damage associated with the theft of their credit card data, which, according to the report, pulls in $ 160 billion.
A separate item of expenditure - recovery after attacks: for example, in Italy, the direct losses from hacker attacks amounted to $ 875 million, but cleaning and restoring systems cost $ 8.5 billion.
However, the report has already received a critical assessment. The Guardian pays attention to the cost of recovery after a hacker attack: “This is the money you spend on McAfee and their friends,” Ross Anderson, a professor of technological safety at the University of Cambridge, quotes. “The irony is that the security industry, in mock terror, warns the world that their momentum is too high,” he summed up the scope of the threats described in the report.
The Guardian also finds fault with the valuation methodology - too much indirect data, some countries are simply turned off due to a lack of trust in their information. But they end up commenting that the shortcomings of individual studies are not a reason to ignore the scale of cybercrime in the world.
A little more on the topic:
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/225781/
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